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New comment by thereforegrin in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

thereforegrin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:00:20 +0000

at least not yet

New comment by thereforegrin in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

thereforegrin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:35:35 +0000

I don't know it either, but I read it as: - 'goat' referring to both the 'greatest of all time' as in specialized and at the same time to it being a not-so-common animal, - while 'cow' is simply just a common animal, so in this context it represents a plain worker.

I'm not aware of any 'cow' acronym, that would directly relate to work/proficiency as the 'goat' does but it would further enhance the meaning behind the quoted phrase.

In fact it's exactly what is missing, for the phrase to be instantly understandable by making it symmetric in both direct and acronymic reading.

So is there a 'cow' acronym, that is an antonym to 'goat'? I'm not aware of one.

New comment by thereforegrin in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

thereforegrin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:01:58 +0000

wasn't the "dungeon under a pizzeria with a shotgun" stunt a classic red herring as the accusations were actually leveled against the store next door?

I vaguely remember it being along those lines.

New comment by thereforegrin in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

thereforegrin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:01:17 +0000

if he actually was, then it's not a personal attack but stating facts about a person - there's a meaningful difference.

A personal attack has no informational value (about the accused), while bringing to light bad qualities of a person does - especially if those qualities are related to the issue at hand, which in this particular situation seems to be the case.

Again, the distinction between a personal attack and proper characterisation of bad qualities rests on actual facts i.e. was it slander or was he really a bad manager?

I don't know but I personally give less probability to the former than the latter.

New comment by thereforegrin in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

thereforegrin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:37:36 +0000

isn't it simply destruction of property?